Maid

Evicted meets Nickel and Dimed in Stephanie Land s memoir about working as a maid, a beautiful and gritty exploration of poverty in America Includes a foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich My daughter learned to walk in a homeless shelter While the gap between upper middle class Americans and the working poor widens, grueling low wage domestic and service work primarily done by women fuels the economic success of the wealthy Stephanie Land worked for years as a maid, pulling long hours while struggling as a single mom to keep a roof over her daughter s head In Maid, she reveals the dark truth of what it takes to survive and thrive in today s inequitable society.While she worked hard to scratch her way out of poverty as a single parent, scrubbing the toilets of the wealthy, navigating domestic labor jobs, higher education, assisted housing, and a tangled web of government assistance, Stephanie wrote She wrote the true stories that weren t being told The stories of overworked and underpaid Americans.Written in honest, heart rending prose and with great insight, Maid explores the underbelly of upper middle class America and the reality of what it s like to be in service to them I d become a nameless ghost, Stephanie writes With this book, she gives voice to the servant worker, those who fight daily to scramble and scrape by for their own lives and the lives of their children. Best Download Maid [ by ] Stephanie Land [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr This book is going to garner a range of reactions when it s published What this book does well is illuminate the struggles of poverty and single motherhood, the unrelenting frustration of having no safety net, the ways in which our society is systemically designed to keep impoverished people mired in poverty, the indignity of poverty by way of unmovable bureaucracy, and people s lousy attitudes toward poor people When she writes about her circumstances, Land s prose is vivid and engaging Her This book is going to garner a range of reactions when it s published What this book does well is illuminate the struggles of poverty and single motherhood, the unrelenting frustration of having no safety net, the ways in which our society is systemically designed to keep impoverished people mired in poverty, the indignity of poverty by way of unmovable bureaucracy, and people s lousy attitudes toward poor people When she writes about her circumstances, Land s prose is vivid and engaging Her hopelessness, during this time in her life is palpable But it is strange that the publicity materials compare thi...Wish I could have climbed into these pages and given this young woman a hug Nineteen pregnant, she leaves an abusive relationship When her daughter is born she is a single mother with few resources and very little support This is a honest, down to earth, telling of her story trying to manuver through a system that is stacked against her She is a hard worker and takes the only job she can get, while still taking care of her daughter, and taking online classes in a effort to provide for a bett Wish I could have climbed into these pages and given this young woman a hug Nineteen pregnant, she leaves an abusive relationship When her daughter is born she is a single mother with few resources and very little support This is a honest, down to earth, telling of...Stephanie Land has never stopped advocating for herself As a young single mother escaping an abusive relationship with no help from her family, she found herself homeless and jobless Her daughter took her first steps in a homeless shelter Once she was eligible for housing, she had to endure constant surveillance, degrading lectures on energy efficiency, and no visitors Once she found employment as a maid, she worked for less than minimum wage, exposed herself to injury without paid time off Stephanie Land has never stopped advocating for herself As a young single mother escaping an abusive relationship with no help from her family, she found herself homeless and jobless Her daughter took her first steps in a homeless shelter Once she was eligible for housing, she had to endure constant surveillance, degrading lectures on energy efficiency, and no visitors Once she found employment as a maid, she worked for less than minimum wage, exposed herself to injury without paid time off or health insurance, and no guarantee of hours The only home she could afford was making herself and her daughter sick In short, Stephanie was stuck in a syste...Oh this is powerful It spoke to my human and social worker heart This will make you think twice about cultural stereotypes surrounding single motherhood and about use of government aid I wanted to high five Land so many times I ve watched clients, close family...Is this book supposed to be surprising Eye opening It s by a lady who gets pregnant from an abusive relationship and then she has to clean houses and wrangle with government assistance programs to make ends meet Like 1 million other ladies I don t get it.A solid addition to the modern cannon on poverty that includes 2 a day Shaefer Edin and Evicted Desmond Land juxtaposes the daily grind of poverty with amusing observations about her housework clients, making this pai...Stephanie Land admits she s made mistakes, but the one constant she s had for the past ten years her unwavering love for her daughter, Mia Upon discovering she is pregnant, she discards her dream of moving to Missoula Montana and pursuing a degree as a writer The following five years, well documented here, find her moving from various homes without much help from a fa...I was drawn to this memoir because I was raised by a single mother, and although our circumstances were not so dire, I felt invested in Land s account of her struggles with being a single mom who worked so hard and struggled harder Land s writing is good, but what I really enjoyed was the way that she presented each house that she worked in as a different lesson she learned in her desperate attempts to stay afloat While she does provide a commentary on the stigma surrounding government assista I was drawn to this memoir because I was raised by a single mother, and although our circumstances were not so dire, I felt invested in Land s account of her struggles with being a single mom who worked so hard and struggled harder Land s writing is good, but what I really enjoyed was the way that she presented each house that she worked in as a different lesson she learned in her desperate attempts to stay afloat While she does pro...First, this book is most certainly NOT in the category of Evicted, one of the most well researched, measured and thoughtful books published on the subject of chronic poverty in America I wanted to like this book, and feel that the subject matter is critically important to expose and discuss YetI just didn t There s a kind of immaturity about the book and frankly, many of the author s actions that grated, especially the flip flopping between envy and judgment of the middle class families First, this book is most certainly NOT in the category of Evicted, one of the most well researched, measured and thoughtful books published on the subject of chronic poverty in America I wanted to like this book, and feel that the subject matter is critically important to expose and discuss YetI just didn t There s a kind of immaturity about the book and frankly, many of the author s actions that grated, especially the flip flopping between envy an...Stephanie Land was a young, single mother when she found herself homeless With nowhere to turn to for help, she struggled to find a way to get on her feet while supporting her young daughter, Mia House cleaning was an occupation she found herself in, but she soon realized that the paltry wages she was paid barely allowed her to keep a roof over her head The juxtaposition between the moldy, drafty st...

• English
• 27 May 2018
Stephanie Land
• Hardcover
• 288 pages
• 0316505110
• Stephanie Land
• Maid